Improvement in paper-files



L-GHILDS. Paper-File.

No. 208.568. Patented Oct. 1,1878.

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ADDISON OHILDS, OF YPSILANTI, MICHIGAN.

IMPROVEMENT IN PAPER-FILES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 208.568, dated October 1, 1878; application filed May 27, 1876.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ADDISON (lum s, of Ypsilanti, Washtenaw county, Michigan, have invented a new and Improved Paper-File, of which the following is a specification:

Figure 1 represents a front view, and Fig. 2 a side View, of my improved paper file or rack.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

The invention is intended to provide for families, reading-rooms, libraries, and other uses, an improved paper file or rack, by which the different papers may be quickly and neatly filed in proper order, and one or more readily taken out for use, without allowing the others to fall out; and the invention consists of a base-frame hung to the wall, and provided with projecting supporting-strips and springacted paper-holding frames.

In the drawing, A represents the base or supporting-frame, that is hung up to the wall, and made of any size and finish, according to the number of papers to be filed and the place where it is to be used.

Frame A has a number of horizontal projecting cross-strips, B, on which the papers rest, while they are retained by the front end of the presser-bars C, which form part of frames 0, that are held down by coiled springs D, the latter connecting the frames 0 to the strips B, and causing the bars 0 to bear tightly on the papers after insertion.

By lifting the spring-acted frames 0 the papers may be readily put in and taken out, and thus a number of different papers be neatly filed and stored out of the way, while being at the same time conveniently within reach when required for use.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent As an article of manufacture, apaper-file consisting of the frame A, having cross-strips B, and the frames 0, having presser-bars O, the hinge-springs D connecting the rear of frames 0 with the cross-strips B, as and for the purpose specified.

ADDISON CHILDS. 

